A long time ago, i read my first Michael Crichton novel. The Andromeda Strain (1969 book). this was followed later by Eaters of the Dead (1976) and then The Great Train Robbery (1975). Other Books followed, and then movies...lots of movies - the Jurassic park movies, Terminal man, Congo, Sphere, rising sun, the lost world and recently The 13th Warrior. I didnt know this was a crichton novel until recently when I searched the net for the words of a prayer uttered by the lead actor, Antonio Banderas. I noticed that the story was very similar to the old Beowulf story but in fact, the film, 13th Warrior is actually the based on the Eaters of the dead.

The Prayer that attracted my attention goes like this,

Ahmed's Prayer
Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things.
This was not among them.
But at this moment I beg only to live the next few minutes well.
For all we ought to have thought but have not thought,
All we ought to have said but have not said,
All we ought to have done but have not done,
I pray thee, God, for forgiveness.

Viking Prayer
Lo, there, do I see my father.
Lo, there, do I see my mother, my sisters and my brothers.
Lo, there, do I see the line of my people back to the beginning.
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them in the halls of Valhalla where the
brave may live forever.

Final Narration
Across the seas of monsters and forests of demons we traveled.
Praise be to Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate.
May his blessing be upon pagan men who loved other gods, who shared their
food, shed their blood, that his servant, Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, might become a
man and a useful servant of God.

1966 Odds On - written as John Lange
1967 Scratch One - written as John Lange
1968 Easy Go - written as John Lange
1968 A Case of Need - written as Jeffery Hudson
1969 Venom Business - written as John Lange
1969 Zero Cool - written as John Lange
1969 The Andromeda Strain
1970 Grave Descend - written as John Lange
1970 '\'Drug of Choice'' - written as John Lange
1970 Dealing - written with his bother Douglass Crichton as Michael Douglas
1972 Binary - written as John Lange
1972 The Terminal Man
1975 The Great Train Robbery
1976 Eaters of the Dead
1980 Congo
1987 Sphere
1990 Jurassic Park
1992 Rising Sun
1993 Disclosure
1995 The Lost World
1996 Airframe
1999 Timeline (novel)
2002 Prey

Non-Fiction

1970 Five Patients
1977 Jasper Johns
1983 Electronic Life
1988 Travels

Directed Movies

1972 Pursuit (a TV movie)
1973 Westworld
1978 Coma
1979 The Great Train Robbery
1981 Looker
1984 Runaway
1989 Physical Evidence

Screenplay

1973 Extreme Close Up
1996 Twister - co-written with his wife Anne-Marie Martin

Films based on work by Michael Crichton

1971 The Andromeda Strain
1972 Dealing
1972 The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need)
1972 The Terminal Man
1979 The Great Train Robbery
1993 Rising Sun
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 Disclosure
1995 Congo
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1998 Sphere
1999 The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)
2001 Jurassic Park 3
2003 Timeline

TV Series

1994- ER

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